This film still has a lot of valid information in it. I kind of wish there was a modern version of this film made with more up to date information for this modern world.
The physics haven't changed, so all the shielding information is still applicable. Public fallout shelters don't really exist anymore, I mean the buildings might, but the shelters are probably used for storage and not stocked with food and supplies.
@Billy Boshanski Because the supplies for water, some toilet paper, some cardboard barrels with plastic liners that you could add water to, and a large number of things that look like large saltine crackers. Your meal was one saltine cracker and a glass of water. Yes the supplies were a joke because I happen to know how civil defense shelters were stocked.
I think it would be informative for physics purposes, but showing this to everyone would only make people more scared at this point. These videos were made when nuclear war was a constant and very real threat. The end of the cold war has all but proven that nuclear bombs are humanity's limit so they're not much of a threat. Today, the majority of people didn't even live in the 80s. People like me couldn't care less about nuclear war because it's literally global suicide.
"Dying an utterly useless death." I love it. The very core of Cold War civil defense thinking. If you die without making serious efforts to survive it's your fault, not the government's.
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It's also about "in such an emergency, human capital is key to national recovery".
Well, this was because the prevailing attitude, even then, was becoming "well if it happens it happens I'm dead anyway" and really there WERE a LOT of things people could do, but they chose to simply feel helpless about it and overwhelmed and not put ANY effort into increasing their chances. The prevailing attitude with most people when it comes to nuclear war is "well, there'll just be a flash and that's it, I'm dust, so why bother?" or "I hope I'm vaporized so I don't have to live as a burned and blind radiation poisoned starving husk until I die anyway". The simple fact is, and the defense department did studies on this, even in a worst case scenario all-out attack in the middle of a workday, only about 10% of the US population would be killed instantly in a nuclear attack. At night or weekend it would be much lower, and in a more limited attack scenario (one not directly targeting cities, which according to strategists is NOT what you want to do right off, because you guarantee retaliation against your own cities-- better to hold the enemy's cities "hostage" to possible retaliatory strikes and thus induce a "cessation of hostilities" BEFORE their cities get nuked) would be lower still. Looking at it geometrically, MOST of the surface area affected by a detonation increases exponentially with distance, so only a relatively small area (in square miles) is within the "instantly lethal" range of a detonation. Moving outward from the ground zero, the surface area in these "outer rings" of decreasing severity (from 5-10 miles distant) will contain a VASTLY larger amount of surface area, and thus a HUGE number of people who could potentially save themselves *IF* they are NOT IDIOTS who just throw in the towel and decide to go sit in lawn chairs and wait for the end. Some will be at the wrong place at the wrong time or unable to shelter themselves, not have warning or sufficient shelter available, etc, and suffer terrible injury or death, but even BASIC protective measures can potentially save ones life or minimize the severity of injuries received, allowing what would have been surely fatal injuries sustained with NO protection to be reduced to survivable injuries or even light or NO injuries had they sought shelter. Same thing with radiation. The first step in protecting oneself is educating oneself about the dangers and ways to minimize them and protect oneself the best way possible. Sure you might not be able to fully protect oneself, but ANY protection is better than NONE. Of course if it ever happens there'll be plenty of idiots found dead who just sat through it and died where they sat, ignorant or ignoring the danger. Like he said in the video, if you're stupid enough to go out and bare your chest to it, well, that's your privilege; nobody is going to stop you, but you'll be dead dead dead! Easier to stick a gun in your mouth honestly. Even in the military they train people to shelter to the best of their ability to survive, even in fallout conditions. For instance I read a survival manual telling downed airmen in fallout zones to dig a slit trench as quickly as possible, as deep as possible, throw the first couple inches of dirt as far away as possible, and pile up the rest around the trench for added shielding, and then lay down in the trench as flat as possible and stay there... take a stick or branch if possible and prop the parachute up over the slit trench, stretched as far out as possible, and secured with dirt or whatever is available to keep out particles. Every so often, every hour at first and every few hours thereafter for the first couple days or so, reach up and beat the parachute to dislodge fallout particles that landed on it and shake them down from the center to the outside edges, to minimize the number of particles shining radiation straight down through the parachute into the slit trench. Will this protect you if you land in an area with 1000+ rads/hour of radiation?? No, you'll probably get a lethal dose before you can even dig a trench, but even if you are in an area with a couple hundred rads/hr, it could mean the difference between certain death and surviving with bad radiation sickness, and in lesser contaminated areas, between perhaps bad radiation sickness and none or nearly none. It simply improves your chances, and the longer you survive, the better your chances become. The goal is to survive the first hour, then the first seven hours, then the first 24 hours, the first 48 hours, and then the first two weeks. If you survive the first hour, you probably improve your chances at least tenfold, the first 7 hours, probably about a hundredfold, etc... If you survive the first two weeks, your chances are very good you'll survive the year. I mean, something will get us ALL eventually, war or no war, BUT the longer you survive after the actual event, the better your chances become of surviving it. Later! OL J R :)
13:40 Better to make shelter in the *middle* of the basement away from radioactive particles on the ground outside the walls of the basement. Close off furnace and wateheater chimney to minimize particles falling down the flue to the basement. Tornado Alley residents should build a tornado shelter which can also be a fallout shelter.
No, against the wall with plenty of soil on the outside... BUT stay down low by laying on the floor where the soil outside is the thickest, and furthest away from the ground surface outside. Radiation follows the same laws as light from a flashlight. Imagine if its a flashlight that can shine light through solid walls and materials. Having a "shelter" in the center of the basement will be exposed to more radiation from outside than staying low next to the outside walls, because the radiation will "shine" in through the wall above ground level, but has to shine "down through" the entire thickness and height of the wall from top to bottom to irradiate the area on the floor next to the outside walls, because it has to shine diagonally down through the entire wall to get to the floor. Radiation basically is shielded out by the first couple feet or so of soil below the ground surface. The further you get out toward the center of the room, the less wall it has to "shine through" to irradiate the center of the basement. That's why they say to shelter in the corners of the basement down low to the floor. Good points on the flue and chimneys though. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Thank you. Radiation diminishes with distance. We have radioactive particles at ground level on the outside radiating through the cement wall. If the cement block shelter is further away from the particles, we gain benefit of the interior shelter wall andistance from particles. Would be interesting to measure. I assumed in a corner to save material fromaking four walls instead of using the two existing foundation walls.
Twice as much time has passed from then (1970) to now (2021) than from 1945 to then and he called it "a long time has passed since WWII". 25 years is long but ... 51 is more.
Those aren't bad items to have lying around, along with a first-aid kit, smoke detector and a good fire extinguisher or two. Just being prepared for a three-day power outage would give us an advantage over those who aren't.
Our daily lives are just barely outside of total disaster. Cellphone networks collapse in areas where a major football game is underway. On 9/11 nobody on the East coast could place a call to anyone else. Our food supply system spins into the dirt if forecasters “think” a major storm will strike. Power companies rotate blackouts on very hot or cold days. A computer virus shuts down gasoline supply within hours. Can you imagine a nuclear threat, when all of these and more happen all at once?
It became painfully obvious how ill prepared most of the US was when we had a hiccup as trivial as a toilet paper shortage. Just imagine if there was a real emergency, all of the sudden those that prepared weren't so crazy now where they?
or in this case, being as prepared as you can, because if you stock up and survive you will be looted by either your former best friends and neighbors, or by the government, you will be a pinata. Be unprepared, take the blast face on, and you'll be with your lost family members and pets in the afterlife, if you believe in that, or at least no longer here and capable of experiencing the absolute horror that follows this
I wonder if a X-Ray or CT scan control room would make a good fallout shelter but only as a last resort. The walls are lined with lead but more shielding is needed due to gamma rays
Probly not because the shielding is only between the source (machine) and the operator's console... nothing above, below, or behind. Course it's better than nothing to be sure. Later! OL J R :)
I worked at a hospital that had a gamma knife room, that would work. Shielded on all sides with a 90 degree turn at the entrance. Basically a fallout shelter with the danger inside, but only dangerous if the machine is on.
There has been a large shift in demographics in the past 50 years, many more people live in cities and less in the countryside. This means casualties would be much higher today than back then!
I don't think so. Cities have heavier buildings, better build and more solid than those found in Hiroshima, or the flimsy wooden shacks found on an Arizonian nuclear test site. Also, there are the underground/subway systems to consider.
Does anyone know the title and-or composer of the music used around 6:37?? I once heard that same music on a French TV broadcast of Charles deGualle’s funeral.
@10:30 “Of course if you’re convinced the futility of it all, and you want to just stand out there and bare your breasts to radiation, that happens to be your privilege.”😂
More or less. Civil Defense in the US is nowhere like that in Switzerland. The Swiss govt will provide shelter for almost all of it’s citizens. In the US, the govt will tell you how to protect yourself,but won’t hardly do it for you or provide funding. Everything is DIY.
The US were always better about letting citizens what they _can_ do to protect themselves (assuming that citizens are always free to "bare their breast to radiation.") The UK Protect and Survive were about what citizens _must_ do to protect themselves, with no transparency about what its government was doing. Bear in mind that _Protect and Survive_ was developed barely a year into Thatcher's first term.
More people need to see this. "When sirens alert, don't reach for the phone, the lines need to be clear for emergency response" That might be a bit dated in a way now But in this scenario, I'm sure a good number of people would go to whatever media bs to find out what is going, or like in the Beirut explosions film it rather than reacting to something clearly bad about to happen Common sense is really lost on most people, sadly
That was funny advice. Because, the very FIRST thing that people would have done was to pick up their phone, begin calling their friends and family and clogging all the phone lines.
Don't you recognize "Tricky Dickies' photo? When told by his right hand man a guy he hired to be his eyes and ears that happened to be a retired NYC Cop he would have to come up with one million dollars to get his tail out of the watergate ringer in hopes he would not attempt anything illegal he replied, "Oh I can come up with that!"
Lmao I already had an immaculately stocked pantry. When COVID shutdowns hit my wife deployed me to buy a few hundred bucks of liquor and wine for the quarantine lol!
Duck and cover is a great way to protect yourself from flying glass and debris from ANY large explosion, nuclear or not. In the Halifax disaster in WW1 in Canada, when a ship blew up with 3 kilotons of chemical explosives, obliterating the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, thousands were killed, blinded, and otherwise seriously injured by flying glass and debris from the shock wave-- they'd rushed to their windows to see the rising fireball and mushroom cloud (which ANY large explosion will generate nuclear or not) and were just far enough away that when the shock wave arrived from a half minute to a couple minutes or so later, it blew their windows in with such force to cut them to ribbons with the shattered glass, put their eyes out, cause severe bleeding or injuries that could seriously maim or kill. Had they rushed AWAY from the windows and sought shelter in an interior hallway or under a heavy desk or beside a large appliance or wherever they could, they likely would have suffered minimal injuries or none at all. SO duck and cover is STILL a good thing to learn even today, because there's always the risk of a large explosion, nuclear or otherwise, from terrorists, tanker trucks or trains or chemical plant explosions, gas explosions, aircraft crashes, etc. Even the "pull a newspaper over your head" in the old duck and cover films provided SOME protection against the heat flash of a nuclear weapon; better the paper to burn than you! The paper might ignite from the heat flash, but it could be hurled away and would minimize the deep heat penetration into the skin that could cause severe burns, even if one did get singed or minor burns from the ignited newspaper, and at sufficient distances the newspaper would not ignite and could give much better protection against even first degree burns from heat flash. Sad people have convinced themselves that "nothing can be done" and deluded themselves into thinking that if there's a nuclear war there'll just be a bright flash and they'll instantly turn to dust and that's that. Simple fact is, if you're more than 5 miles away from most explosions, you'll likely survive the initial blast and heat anyway, but whether you stay alive depends on luck and NOT BEING STUPID... Later! OL J R :)
This is some very useful information that still applies today, especially in 2023 when we have an illegitimate POTUS with Alzheimer's hellbent on starting WWIII.
@@kennethbrown5358 No, not like Reagan at all. Reagan was a beloved and effective President who got us on track after the 1976-1980 nightmare that was Jimmy Carter. See the pattern? Wherever Demonrats go, Anarchy, destruction. and suffering follows.
@@snarkyenigma9219It’s been five months since you posted your MAGA/QANON screed, sport. World War III hasn’t happened, and your cult icon’s been indicted four times. How’s that working for you, Trumpscab?
@@yankeedoodle1963 Since you asked, the last 2.5 years hasn't been working out for me. My retirement plan has lost money, the cost of just about everything has gone up (substantially), I'm more worried about a world war than ever, and there is a "peaceful" invasion going on across my southern border. I think we need new leadership, no matter what side it comes from.
@@themagus5906 So are you still saying Biden has Alzheimer’s and is illegitimate? Let’s get back to that, magus buddy. Explain to us why you’re asserting that he didn’t win the 2020 election. And based on what substantive clinical diagnosis can you claim Biden has Alzheimer’s? You don’t just get to wave that off by saying “we need real leadership from one side or the other ‘n blah blah blah”, that doesn’t wash with me. It’s YOUR NARRATIVE, let’s get down to cases. As for your retirement, well, mine has risen substantially- not the least of which was by selling ALL my stocks in April 2022 and converting to bonds and CD’s almost exclusively since then. You could have done it too, but no, you chose to be a passive investor and miss the opportunity higher interest rates provided. And sure, let’s talk about immigration: everyone crossing into the United States is looking to provide for themselves and their families. It’s as simple as that. I suppose your ancestors came to America in a first class ocean liner cabin? No mine neither. Keep in mind that our border also affords YOU the opportunity to LEAVE. I’m certain that there are many people who will appreciate my country - and president - more than you do.
Fun fact of the day you probably didnt need to know, The narrator/actor at 1:49 onward, also did many GM truck/van salesmen training video's on laser disk's, 14 year's after this in the 1984/1985 model years, ruclips.net/video/8JAcMkxkd1w/видео.htmlsi=tnJcwABESLkMrd6J
When would this be broadcast, or was this supposed to be shown to certain people? Was it supposed to be broadcast on the television if tensions were at their highest?
We saw alot of these type of films in school growing up. I graduated HS 1970! I also lived near a nuclear Air Force base. There was a large radar site & a missle site not too far from my home. The area also was on a major waterway that if hit would have shut done most of the major heavy manufacturing in the US due to the minerals shipped through it. We knew we were toast from the first strike!! This was in a rural, fairly remote area of the Upper Mid West. Russia in those days had bomb strikes prioritized by order of importance...large military installations & DC were #1. Large manufacturing centers,major cities. Transportation centers #2, and so on in order of importance. Bombs were not dropped willy nilly.
No. Not universities per se. Most prestigious universities are usually located near major,large cities so, they would be bombed but, not for the university's sake alone. The city would be bombed but, in order of prominence. If it contained nothing of military or strategic importance, it would not be one of the first, or second strikes. Perhaps, depending on circumstances, might not be bombed at all by a nuclear device. The priority was decapitation of a country first.
Your question about when films were shown & to whom. Films of this nature were shown to school age children, civic groups, community gatherings, work places, higher education, professional folks( fire fighters. Police, hospitals,etc.). Most were tailored, some what for the audience. A younger school age child might not be shown this one but, a film that explained a blast & what to do & who to obey if caught at school,for example. Most folks in those days saw at least one film,somewhere. The small town near me would blare the siren on a Saturday afternoon, for example,as a test. I suppose reports were then written & sent onward to higher authorities, that would mention people's reaction & response. Most banks, libraries, larger dep't stores, civic buildings had these civil defense signs fixed to entrances. These types of buildings generally were constructed of concrete, marble, brick,etc.They also had deep basements for foundations, municipal lines( telephone, water, sewers,etc).
@@shirleybalinski4535 I thought schools, colleges and universities would have been ordered to close in the days leading up to an attack. Anyway, these films are actually similar to the British Protect And Survive ones, which would have been been shown on all television stations in the days leading up to an attack.
0:51 LOL I KNOW NIXON WAS THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME BUT I ALWAYS LAUGH BECAUSE EVERY PERSON IN WASHINGTON HAD A RANDOM PHOTO OF HIM ON THEIR WALL 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@nathanjustus6659 , Exactly. It appears that in the 50's, 60's and 70's people were capable of forming a true perspective of the threat. But, that this was eroded by pacifists and the unilateralists of CND. The ideas of non-survivability and of: "Terminal Nuclear Winter," were propagated and became accepted into the mainstream. But, in fact there is no proof of these ideas, or: "Nuclear Winter," and I imagine that there cannot be.
And alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper... unless you inhale or ingest the source releasing them, THEN you're in trouble... We all live with alpha emitters 24 hours a day in our homes right now-- smoke detectors use alpha emitters and a detector circuit to detect those alpha particles-- if there is smoke in the air, it blocks the alpha particles and the smoke alarm goes off... Later! OL J R :)
Yeah back then we had to use critical thinking skills along with programs like these in order to secure safety for our families. Unlike today where the empty headed masses blindly rely on the government and tic toc to save them
Handy and timely info in the Jotato Briben Pretendency! Still a lot of good info. Protect yourself in the NPC LIberal controlled demolition time. Hang in there help is coming.
I like many people can rip this informative apart but just remember this. America is the only country to use nuc's in anger and with an extreme narcissist running the country atm. Then let's just hope him and his gun ho general's don't do anything stupid.
Fun fact: The bulletin of Atomic Scientists blame Donald Trump for most of the rise of nuclear tensions. He is mainly to blame for the symbolic doomsday clock moving closer to midnight in the past 4 years
The nukes weren’t dropped “in anger” . It was war time and as the expression goes “all fair “ . The bombs were used to save over 1 million casualties in a mainland Japan invasion. The country was no closer to nuclear war under President Trump than your narcissistic race baiter who preceded him. P.S. like the other commenter said: You sound stupid
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"Warshington."
Ahhhhh good ol warshington D.C
It’s because it’s a filthy place that needs to be scrubbed clean.
That's how old timers pronounce it in my neck of the woods lol
He must be a Hoosier. Hard habit to break saying Warsh
Nuclear tack
This film still has a lot of valid information in it. I kind of wish there was a modern version of this film made with more up to date information for this modern world.
The physics haven't changed, so all the shielding information is still applicable. Public fallout shelters don't really exist anymore, I mean the buildings might, but the shelters are probably used for storage and not stocked with food and supplies.
@@wickedmuffin76 Exactly.
@@wickedmuffin76 they really didn’t. The supplies were a bit of a joke.
@Billy Boshanski Because the supplies for water, some toilet paper, some cardboard barrels with plastic liners that you could add water to, and a large number of things that look like large saltine crackers. Your meal was one saltine cracker and a glass of water. Yes the supplies were a joke because I happen to know how civil defense shelters were stocked.
I think it would be informative for physics purposes, but showing this to everyone would only make people more scared at this point. These videos were made when nuclear war was a constant and very real threat. The end of the cold war has all but proven that nuclear bombs are humanity's limit so they're not much of a threat. Today, the majority of people didn't even live in the 80s. People like me couldn't care less about nuclear war because it's literally global suicide.
The script of the 1978 civil defense film "Protection in the Nuclear Age" is heavily based on the script used in this film.
"Dying an utterly useless death." I love it. The very core of Cold War civil defense thinking. If you die without making serious efforts to survive it's your fault, not the government's.
It's also about "in such an emergency, human capital is key to national recovery".
Idk about you but I don't generally go through life making only cavalier efforts to survive
Well, this was because the prevailing attitude, even then, was becoming "well if it happens it happens I'm dead anyway" and really there WERE a LOT of things people could do, but they chose to simply feel helpless about it and overwhelmed and not put ANY effort into increasing their chances. The prevailing attitude with most people when it comes to nuclear war is "well, there'll just be a flash and that's it, I'm dust, so why bother?" or "I hope I'm vaporized so I don't have to live as a burned and blind radiation poisoned starving husk until I die anyway". The simple fact is, and the defense department did studies on this, even in a worst case scenario all-out attack in the middle of a workday, only about 10% of the US population would be killed instantly in a nuclear attack. At night or weekend it would be much lower, and in a more limited attack scenario (one not directly targeting cities, which according to strategists is NOT what you want to do right off, because you guarantee retaliation against your own cities-- better to hold the enemy's cities "hostage" to possible retaliatory strikes and thus induce a "cessation of hostilities" BEFORE their cities get nuked) would be lower still. Looking at it geometrically, MOST of the surface area affected by a detonation increases exponentially with distance, so only a relatively small area (in square miles) is within the "instantly lethal" range of a detonation. Moving outward from the ground zero, the surface area in these "outer rings" of decreasing severity (from 5-10 miles distant) will contain a VASTLY larger amount of surface area, and thus a HUGE number of people who could potentially save themselves *IF* they are NOT IDIOTS who just throw in the towel and decide to go sit in lawn chairs and wait for the end. Some will be at the wrong place at the wrong time or unable to shelter themselves, not have warning or sufficient shelter available, etc, and suffer terrible injury or death, but even BASIC protective measures can potentially save ones life or minimize the severity of injuries received, allowing what would have been surely fatal injuries sustained with NO protection to be reduced to survivable injuries or even light or NO injuries had they sought shelter.
Same thing with radiation. The first step in protecting oneself is educating oneself about the dangers and ways to minimize them and protect oneself the best way possible. Sure you might not be able to fully protect oneself, but ANY protection is better than NONE. Of course if it ever happens there'll be plenty of idiots found dead who just sat through it and died where they sat, ignorant or ignoring the danger. Like he said in the video, if you're stupid enough to go out and bare your chest to it, well, that's your privilege; nobody is going to stop you, but you'll be dead dead dead! Easier to stick a gun in your mouth honestly. Even in the military they train people to shelter to the best of their ability to survive, even in fallout conditions. For instance I read a survival manual telling downed airmen in fallout zones to dig a slit trench as quickly as possible, as deep as possible, throw the first couple inches of dirt as far away as possible, and pile up the rest around the trench for added shielding, and then lay down in the trench as flat as possible and stay there... take a stick or branch if possible and prop the parachute up over the slit trench, stretched as far out as possible, and secured with dirt or whatever is available to keep out particles. Every so often, every hour at first and every few hours thereafter for the first couple days or so, reach up and beat the parachute to dislodge fallout particles that landed on it and shake them down from the center to the outside edges, to minimize the number of particles shining radiation straight down through the parachute into the slit trench. Will this protect you if you land in an area with 1000+ rads/hour of radiation?? No, you'll probably get a lethal dose before you can even dig a trench, but even if you are in an area with a couple hundred rads/hr, it could mean the difference between certain death and surviving with bad radiation sickness, and in lesser contaminated areas, between perhaps bad radiation sickness and none or nearly none. It simply improves your chances, and the longer you survive, the better your chances become. The goal is to survive the first hour, then the first seven hours, then the first 24 hours, the first 48 hours, and then the first two weeks. If you survive the first hour, you probably improve your chances at least tenfold, the first 7 hours, probably about a hundredfold, etc... If you survive the first two weeks, your chances are very good you'll survive the year. I mean, something will get us ALL eventually, war or no war, BUT the longer you survive after the actual event, the better your chances become of surviving it. Later! OL J R :)
It's up to you to deal with your life.
@@lukestrawwalker indeed. The Russians did a great job on destroying morale.
13:40 Better to make shelter in the *middle* of the basement away from radioactive particles on the ground outside the walls of the basement. Close off furnace and wateheater chimney to minimize particles falling down the flue to the basement.
Tornado Alley residents should build a tornado shelter which can also be a fallout shelter.
No, against the wall with plenty of soil on the outside... BUT stay down low by laying on the floor where the soil outside is the thickest, and furthest away from the ground surface outside. Radiation follows the same laws as light from a flashlight. Imagine if its a flashlight that can shine light through solid walls and materials. Having a "shelter" in the center of the basement will be exposed to more radiation from outside than staying low next to the outside walls, because the radiation will "shine" in through the wall above ground level, but has to shine "down through" the entire thickness and height of the wall from top to bottom to irradiate the area on the floor next to the outside walls, because it has to shine diagonally down through the entire wall to get to the floor. Radiation basically is shielded out by the first couple feet or so of soil below the ground surface. The further you get out toward the center of the room, the less wall it has to "shine through" to irradiate the center of the basement. That's why they say to shelter in the corners of the basement down low to the floor. Good points on the flue and chimneys though. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Thank you. Radiation diminishes with distance.
We have radioactive particles at ground level on the outside radiating through the cement wall. If the cement block shelter is further away from the particles, we gain benefit of the interior shelter wall andistance from particles. Would be interesting to measure.
I assumed in a corner to save material fromaking four walls instead of using the two existing foundation walls.
@@robertgift Yes that's true too about the savings by using two existing walls. OL J R :)
Like in the movie The Day After, he sounded earth on the side and in the basement windows.
Sad to think this could be Relevant right now in 2022.
2024.
Twice as much time has passed from then (1970) to now (2021) than from 1945 to then and he called it "a long time has passed since WWII". 25 years is long but ... 51 is more.
dont worry, im sure they are working hard to change this
Remember to bring your scout manual, and city map as well.
60 seconds, anyone?
Good advice.
Those aren't bad items to have lying around, along with a first-aid kit, smoke detector and a good fire extinguisher or two. Just being prepared for a three-day power outage would give us an advantage over those who aren't.
And lots and lots of tomato soup.
11:37 Amazing. UPS trucks are identical today as to how they looked in 1970!
You don't fix what's not broken.
If it's not broken, break it.
Our daily lives are just barely outside of total disaster. Cellphone networks collapse in areas where a major football game is underway. On 9/11 nobody on the East coast could place a call to anyone else. Our food supply system spins into the dirt if forecasters “think” a major storm will strike. Power companies rotate blackouts on very hot or cold days. A computer virus shuts down gasoline supply within hours. Can you imagine a nuclear threat, when all of these and more happen all at once?
Yeah I can…
I just like these video's because of the nostagia
It became painfully obvious how ill prepared most of the US was when we had a hiccup as trivial as a toilet paper shortage. Just imagine if there was a real emergency, all of the sudden those that prepared weren't so crazy now where they?
Which was 90% just at Costco...
There actually was no shortage per se, There was plenty of toilet paper in the system, it was the hoarding of such that caused the problem.
I agree 100 percent, @jim.
There was no shortage, only hoarding. All you need to do is find where it is, and take it.
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 and I got something for those that think that way when they come knocking.
15:10: "Honey, there's a sudden emergency happening; where do we keep the boxes full of sand? I need them for our makeshift shelter."
5:33 the zoom out and starting to list the three things its kind of refreshing not seeing stupid animated letters keynote style.
We still have that very book. In bad shape but still useful.
Being unprepared...
or in this case, being as prepared as you can, because if you stock up and survive you will be looted by either your former best friends and neighbors, or by the government, you will be a pinata. Be unprepared, take the blast face on, and you'll be with your lost family members and pets in the afterlife, if you believe in that, or at least no longer here and capable of experiencing the absolute horror that follows this
I wonder if a X-Ray or CT scan control room would make a good fallout shelter but only as a last resort. The walls are lined with lead but more shielding is needed due to gamma rays
Probly not because the shielding is only between the source (machine) and the operator's console... nothing above, below, or behind. Course it's better than nothing to be sure. Later! OL J R :)
I worked at a hospital that had a gamma knife room, that would work. Shielded on all sides with a 90 degree turn at the entrance. Basically a fallout shelter with the danger inside, but only dangerous if the machine is on.
Global nuclear winter would erode life on earth.
There has been a large shift in demographics in the past 50 years, many more people live in cities and less in the countryside. This means casualties would be much higher today than back then!
I don't think so. Cities have heavier buildings, better build and more solid than those found in Hiroshima, or the flimsy wooden shacks found on an Arizonian nuclear test site.
Also, there are the underground/subway systems to consider.
Does anyone know the title and-or composer of the music used around 6:37?? I once heard that same music on a French TV broadcast of Charles deGualle’s funeral.
So, why are we not still doing this today?
REMEMBER!! Call before you dig!
@10:30 “Of course if you’re convinced the futility of it all, and you want to just stand out there and bare your breasts to radiation, that happens to be your privilege.”😂
I love these 1950's WASP American men: Calm, confident, always in control. Always in command. Always a leader. That's MY template of a man.
This is 1970. And, regardless of your skin color or gender, if you’re not calm and in control, you shouldn’t have the job.
Let's see how calm we are if we see a double flash! Perhaps we'll be calmly evaporating!
@@lundsweden you might be panicked but don’t show it.
@@lundsweden ,
I think they'd be more survivors than you expect.
Everyone is upbeat and ready to, build it back better….
is the the american version of "Protect and survive"
More or less. Civil Defense in the US is nowhere like that in Switzerland.
The Swiss govt will provide shelter for almost all of it’s citizens. In the US, the govt will tell you how to protect yourself,but won’t hardly do it for you or provide funding. Everything is DIY.
@@irvan36mm protect and survive was in UK.
The US were always better about letting citizens what they _can_ do to protect themselves (assuming that citizens are always free to "bare their breast to radiation.") The UK Protect and Survive were about what citizens _must_ do to protect themselves, with no transparency about what its government was doing. Bear in mind that _Protect and Survive_ was developed barely a year into Thatcher's first term.
More people need to see this.
"When sirens alert, don't reach for the phone, the lines need to be clear for emergency response"
That might be a bit dated in a way now
But in this scenario, I'm sure a good number of people would go to whatever media bs to find out what is going, or like in the Beirut explosions film it rather than reacting to something clearly bad about to happen
Common sense is really lost on most people, sadly
It still applies, cell towers and the lines between them can be overloaded.
Yes, good luck trying to get 911 when you really need it. Especially on the south side. Lol
That was funny advice. Because, the very FIRST thing that people would have done was to pick up their phone, begin calling their friends and family and clogging all the phone lines.
Those stinkin cell phones would be instant toast...dont believe it??? The jokes on you
Electromagnetic pulse of the nukes would make electronic devices useless.
Preparation is the key.
I think we're more at threat then the 70s and 80s
Not really... but still, I recommend to pray for our safety XD
⬇️is watching this in 2024 7:00
I want that handbook!!
This info is still valid.
It's online somewhere, I'm sure.
Does anyone have the source to the Siren sound @ 22:12?
"Warshington"
Is that President Nixon's photo on the background?
Knowing he was the President from 69 to 74, yes it's him. :)
you mean you dont have nixon on your wall?
Don't you recognize "Tricky Dickies' photo? When told by his right hand man a guy he hired to be his eyes and ears that happened to be a retired NYC Cop he would have to come up with one million dollars to get his tail out of the watergate ringer in hopes he would not attempt anything illegal he replied, "Oh I can come up with that!"
"... in Warshington DC."
The futility reminds me of the Fallout games
It's NOT futile. That is pure defeatism. Pacifism. Get with it, buddy!
@@warwickaldermanchannel2340 lmao I read that in a 1950’s radio voice
Half a century ago... crazy.
The gangs raping and looting during Katrina in NOLA was my wake up call! I can't rely on my neighbors in 2023, so we have to be prepared to bug out.
GOOD to see thank you and thumbs up for the video.
I find 10:30 rather interesting- so many people like that, but how many of them would stick by their word?
1:46 C'mon, they didn't HAVE to do any clever links, good analogue try I say.
At 12:54 mins ... Wow that carpet! 😮
Who's the narrator?
Not once did it mention to store beer or liquor 😤
Ohh yeahh that’s a must… it should go with out saying
Lmao I already had an immaculately stocked pantry. When COVID shutdowns hit my wife deployed me to buy a few hundred bucks of liquor and wine for the quarantine lol!
22:11 Be careful! It could be a trick of the Morlocks to lure the Eloi underground!
Duck and Cover!!!
Duck and cover is a great way to protect yourself from flying glass and debris from ANY large explosion, nuclear or not. In the Halifax disaster in WW1 in Canada, when a ship blew up with 3 kilotons of chemical explosives, obliterating the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, thousands were killed, blinded, and otherwise seriously injured by flying glass and debris from the shock wave-- they'd rushed to their windows to see the rising fireball and mushroom cloud (which ANY large explosion will generate nuclear or not) and were just far enough away that when the shock wave arrived from a half minute to a couple minutes or so later, it blew their windows in with such force to cut them to ribbons with the shattered glass, put their eyes out, cause severe bleeding or injuries that could seriously maim or kill. Had they rushed AWAY from the windows and sought shelter in an interior hallway or under a heavy desk or beside a large appliance or wherever they could, they likely would have suffered minimal injuries or none at all. SO duck and cover is STILL a good thing to learn even today, because there's always the risk of a large explosion, nuclear or otherwise, from terrorists, tanker trucks or trains or chemical plant explosions, gas explosions, aircraft crashes, etc. Even the "pull a newspaper over your head" in the old duck and cover films provided SOME protection against the heat flash of a nuclear weapon; better the paper to burn than you! The paper might ignite from the heat flash, but it could be hurled away and would minimize the deep heat penetration into the skin that could cause severe burns, even if one did get singed or minor burns from the ignited newspaper, and at sufficient distances the newspaper would not ignite and could give much better protection against even first degree burns from heat flash.
Sad people have convinced themselves that "nothing can be done" and deluded themselves into thinking that if there's a nuclear war there'll just be a bright flash and they'll instantly turn to dust and that's that. Simple fact is, if you're more than 5 miles away from most explosions, you'll likely survive the initial blast and heat anyway, but whether you stay alive depends on luck and NOT BEING STUPID... Later! OL J R :)
Aged like fine wine
11:27 "bank of bethesda" lmao
Make sure to stock up on dehydrated water
And keep enough water on hand to rehydrate the dehydrated water😁
Richard Nixon trademark of honesty.
Yes a**h0!&, remember he was architect of SALT 1 TREATY signed with the soviet's.
The original doomsday preppers!
Had to split the atom ⚛️
This is some very useful information that still applies today, especially in 2023 when we have an illegitimate POTUS with Alzheimer's hellbent on starting WWIII.
Kinda like Reagan, who joked that the missiles were flying.
@@kennethbrown5358 No, not like Reagan at all. Reagan was a beloved and effective President who got us on track after the 1976-1980 nightmare that was Jimmy Carter. See the pattern? Wherever Demonrats go, Anarchy, destruction. and suffering follows.
@@snarkyenigma9219It’s been five months since you posted your MAGA/QANON screed, sport. World War III hasn’t happened, and your cult icon’s been indicted four times. How’s that working for you, Trumpscab?
@@yankeedoodle1963 Since you asked, the last 2.5 years hasn't been working out for me. My retirement plan has lost money, the cost of just about everything has gone up (substantially), I'm more worried about a world war than ever, and there is a "peaceful" invasion going on across my southern border. I think we need new leadership, no matter what side it comes from.
@@themagus5906 So are you still saying Biden has Alzheimer’s and is illegitimate? Let’s get back to that, magus buddy. Explain to us why you’re asserting that he didn’t win the 2020 election. And based on what substantive clinical diagnosis can you claim Biden has Alzheimer’s? You don’t just get to wave that off by saying “we need real leadership from one side or the other ‘n blah blah blah”, that doesn’t wash with me. It’s YOUR NARRATIVE, let’s get down to cases. As for your retirement, well, mine has risen substantially- not the least of which was by selling ALL my stocks in April 2022 and converting to bonds and CD’s almost exclusively since then. You could have done it too, but no, you chose to be a passive investor and miss the opportunity higher interest rates provided. And sure, let’s talk about immigration: everyone crossing into the United States is looking to provide for themselves and their families. It’s as simple as that. I suppose your ancestors came to America in a first class ocean liner cabin? No mine neither. Keep in mind that our border also affords YOU the opportunity to LEAVE. I’m certain that there are many people who will appreciate my country - and president - more than you do.
Fun fact of the day you probably didnt need to know, The narrator/actor at 1:49 onward, also did many GM truck/van salesmen training video's on laser disk's, 14 year's after this in the 1984/1985 model years, ruclips.net/video/8JAcMkxkd1w/видео.htmlsi=tnJcwABESLkMrd6J
00:32: Whew! I feel so much safer knowing he's headquartered in "Worshington."
Hey! Picture of the old man on the wall there.
Worsheentun.
Kinda Important, right now 😅
When would this be broadcast, or was this supposed to be shown to certain people? Was it supposed to be broadcast on the television if tensions were at their highest?
We saw alot of these type of films in school growing up. I graduated HS 1970! I also lived near a nuclear Air Force base. There was a large radar site & a missle site not too far from my home. The area also was on a major waterway that if hit would have shut done most of the major heavy manufacturing in the US due to the minerals shipped through it. We knew we were toast from the first strike!! This was in a rural, fairly remote area of the Upper Mid West. Russia in those days had bomb strikes prioritized by order of importance...large military installations & DC were #1. Large manufacturing centers,major cities. Transportation centers #2, and so on in order of importance. Bombs were not dropped willy nilly.
@@shirleybalinski4535 I bet universities were also key targets too.
No. Not universities per se. Most prestigious universities are usually located near major,large cities so, they would be bombed but, not for the university's sake alone. The city would be bombed but, in order of prominence. If it contained nothing of military or strategic importance, it would not be one of the first, or second strikes. Perhaps, depending on circumstances, might not be bombed at all by a nuclear device. The priority was decapitation of a country first.
Your question about when films were shown & to whom. Films of this nature were shown to school age children, civic groups, community gatherings, work places, higher education, professional folks( fire fighters. Police, hospitals,etc.). Most were tailored, some what for the audience. A younger school age child might not be shown this one but, a film that explained a blast & what to do & who to obey if caught at school,for example. Most folks in those days saw at least one film,somewhere. The small town near me would blare the siren on a Saturday afternoon, for example,as a test. I suppose reports were then written & sent onward to higher authorities, that would mention people's reaction & response. Most banks, libraries, larger dep't stores, civic buildings had these civil defense signs fixed to entrances. These types of buildings generally were constructed of concrete, marble, brick,etc.They also had deep basements for foundations, municipal lines( telephone, water, sewers,etc).
@@shirleybalinski4535 I thought schools, colleges and universities would have been ordered to close in the days leading up to an attack. Anyway, these films are actually similar to the British Protect And Survive ones, which would have been been shown on all television stations in the days leading up to an attack.
0:51 LOL I KNOW NIXON WAS THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME BUT I ALWAYS LAUGH BECAUSE EVERY PERSON IN WASHINGTON HAD A RANDOM PHOTO OF HIM ON THEIR WALL 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fallout Shelters would not work either!
"In Time of Emergency"" I still have my copy.
Good to know
Lets all hope and pray nuclear war never happens. This is enough to scare me to death. All wildlife would be dead
The living would envy the dead.
Even in the Holocaust, people fought to live. Human nature doesn't change. Most will strive, a small few may give up.
Like the how there ultimate advice is if the government falls still rely on the government
It looks like Homer Simpsons house.
How many Quaaludes has this man taken? Only enough to do the job. To be calm, confident and in control. God bless America!
Not everyone feels the need to run around like a headless chicken. The only way to get through bad situations is to be calm and think clearly.
@@nathanjustus6659 ,
Exactly. It appears that in the 50's, 60's and 70's people were capable of forming a true perspective of the threat. But, that this was eroded by pacifists and the unilateralists of CND.
The ideas of non-survivability and of: "Terminal Nuclear Winter," were propagated and became accepted into the mainstream. But, in fact there is no proof of these ideas, or: "Nuclear Winter," and I imagine that there cannot be.
I have that handbook.
They were still giving it away at the county courthouse in the 80s.
2023 anyone?
Yeah, well, I can’t walk unsupported -- and I also cannot survive without my manufactured antidepressant medication, so ...
There's still alpha radiation which decays more slowly and, as Iraq's experience has shown, has left a horrific legacy.
With the depleted uranium rounds?
And alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper... unless you inhale or ingest the source releasing them, THEN you're in trouble...
We all live with alpha emitters 24 hours a day in our homes right now-- smoke detectors use alpha emitters and a detector circuit to detect those alpha particles-- if there is smoke in the air, it blocks the alpha particles and the smoke alarm goes off... Later! OL J R :)
“Day-Bree”
So, basically it's your fault if you die. What a time this era was.
Yeahh kinda… and as it is now and has always been… the government can only do so much… safety and your protection is ultimately your responsibility
People weren't cry babies. They were tuffer & stoic. Nobody expected someone to hold their hand or pat their back. People got on with life.
What would you want ?
Yeah back then we had to use critical thinking skills along with programs like these in order to secure safety for our families.
Unlike today where the empty headed masses blindly rely on the government and tic toc to save them
'Murica!!
Nixon pic
Ok
As easy as 123!!
See, only 5% of our land would actually be destroyed in a nuclear assault. Nuclear war isn't so bad after all.
Go Joe 🎉
Awesome destruction
Conelrad or FEMA 😂
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
Handy and timely info in the Jotato Briben Pretendency! Still a lot of good info. Protect yourself in the NPC LIberal controlled demolition time. Hang in there help is coming.
Yep, Harris-Walz, while your would-be Fuhrer has nothing but trials in front of him.
I like many people can rip this informative apart but just remember this. America is the only country to use nuc's in anger and with an extreme narcissist running the country atm. Then let's just hope him and his gun ho general's don't do anything stupid.
You sound stupid
Fun fact: The bulletin of Atomic Scientists blame Donald Trump for most of the rise of nuclear tensions. He is mainly to blame for the symbolic doomsday clock moving closer to midnight in the past 4 years
Nice cadillac
The nukes weren’t dropped “in anger” . It was war time and as the expression goes “all fair “ . The bombs were used to save over 1 million casualties in a mainland Japan invasion.
The country was no closer to nuclear war under President Trump than your narcissistic race baiter who preceded him.
P.S. like the other commenter said: You sound stupid
It's not like we didn't warn them, though.